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January 05, 2005
UN Warns Against Fighting
From Reuters via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :
The United Nations has warned governments and rebel groups in Sumatra, Sri Lanka and Somalia to keep the peace or risk being cut-off from aid to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

"We have a message to the parties to the conflicts: Suspend your conflict and work together with us to help your own people," UN emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said.

Peace now prevailed in areas of northern Sumatra's Aceh province torn by a separatist rebellion; a cease-fire prevailed in the parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the Tamil Tigers separatist movement, and feuding warlords were not fighting in "the better part of Somalia," Mr Egeland told reporters.

"We need that cease-fire, that peace, to hold because if new conflict breaks out, we cannot help the people," he said.

Posted by Alan Brain at January 5, 2005 11:16 PM | TrackBack
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